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MA: State boasts first electronic fingerprinting for gun licensing
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"With a quick electronic scan of a fingerprint, gun shop owners in Massachusetts will know immediately if a customer is eligible to buy a weapon, using a system that officials say is the first of its kind in the nation."
"The Massachusetts Instant Record Check System, developed over the past six years with nearly $7 million in information technology grant money, will be in place in all police departments and gun shops across the state by next summer. It is currently operating in three shops and about 140 police departments."
"The system allows police and gun shop owners to have instant access to updated arrest warrant and restraining order information, which was not readily accessible under the old paperwork-intensive system." |
| Comment by:
kurt at otown.com
(12/1/2004)
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The police state rolls on.
What a hideous abuse of technology.
It's been established that criminals don't get their guns through legal channels, so this only amounts to monitoring the gun ownership of the law-abiding sheeple. |
| Comment by:
Pred@tor
(12/1/2004)
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| This shows they treat gun owners like criminals. I live in Cali and they tried to do this for ammo purchases! |
| Comment by:
bruce_krafft-at-yahoo.com
(12/1/2004)
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So how long is it going to take for a black market in fingerprints to show up? You've already seen them in the movies, a little bit of latex inscribed with, say, John Dillinger's fingerprint (or worse, with yours or mine) that a scumbag buys for $50, allowing him to demonstrate his 'clean' record, and, incidentally, allowing him to 'drop' a gun at the scene so that it can be traced back to the poor schmoe whose fingerprint was used to buy it.
A shipmate of mine, who was stationed on a carrier at one point, used to sell his (clean) urine for $50 a pop to anyone who wanted it (this was after the Navy impelmented random urinalysis drug screenings). As he said, he didn't know what people were going to use it for . . . |
| Comment by:
dhopp
(12/1/2004)
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Crapola Maximus!
Why does this sound like prisoners being herded into a gas chamber? Because it is!! Screw their database.
Gunnies should befriend some county sheriff in select states, be deputized and carry in ALL 50!!Go tell Mass to piss up a rope!! |
| Comment by:
Steve
(12/1/2004)
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| Is there any value in accepting Bio-metric Identification in exchange for a very clear, and well written AMMENDMENT forbidding the use of the data for any other purpose, or collection by commerical entities. In other words, bio-metrics could prove your you, but nothing else. No checking against crime scene prints, no storage by the bank, or grocery store, etc. I'm afraid if we don't do something now, it will creep in. |
| Comment by:
4freedom@ttc-cmc.net
(12/1/2004)
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| Don't forget to send more money to the trojan horse NRA, they started this ****! |
| Comment by:
horsecrazy@keepandbeararms.com
(12/1/2004)
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| Guilty until proven innocent; that's what it comes down to. Crap like this just goes to show that they consider all gunowners to be potential criminals. |
| Comment by:
What will it take?
(12/1/2004)
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| What are we going to have to do; to live like freemen again? |
| Comment by:
madashell
(12/1/2004)
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| I look for Illinois to be next, but illinois will include mental health screening along with finger printing. We need some REAL pro-gun (new) leader-ship at the ISRA. Leader-ship that will work to REPEAL gun control not COMPROMISE like the ISRA and NRA did on the FOID card. Ask the www.isra.org to support a REPEAL of the FOID card 1-815-635-3198 |
| Comment by:
Defender
(12/1/2004)
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The Gun Owners Action League thinks it'll be much more convenient.
Chains made out of space-age materials DO rest more lightly. |
| Comment by:
Defender
(12/1/2004)
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"This enables us to make sure that the only people bearing arms in the commonwealth have the right to bear arms."
And the only people possessing heroin and cocaine, etc., in the commonwealth are DEA-licensed physicians, pharmacists and dentists, right? |
| Comment by:
codrea4@adelphia.net
(12/1/2004)
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"This enables us to make sure that the only people bearing arms in the commonwealth have the right to bear arms" --Public Safety Secretary Ed Flynn
Is this a legal affirmation of individual rkba from the state of MA? |
| Comment by:
cmjrdj@yahoo.com
(12/1/2004)
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Whaddaya mean 'potential", horsecrazy? They already think we are criminals for mere possession. They just haven't got the laws passed yet.
And, Mr. Flynn, who decides who has the right to keep and bear arms? I don't trust governments with that info anymore. |
| Comment by:
horsecrazy@keepandbeararms.com
(12/1/2004)
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"Whaddaya mean 'potential", horsecrazy? They already think we are criminals for mere possession."
True; I didn't word my comment as well as I could have. And if they had their way we'd be criminals both in their minds and in the law books. |
| Comment by:
Mitch
(12/1/2004)
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"Is there any value in accepting Bio-metric Identification in exchange for a very clear, and well written AMMENDMENT forbidding the use of the data for any other purpose, or collection by commerical entities."
No value in that. Please recall that we already have a "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" amendment in the constitution, and that the "brady bill" specifically prohibits retention of insta-check records. Rules are only meaningful if governments are willing to follow them. |
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